Issues in the development of an ontology for an emerging engineering discipline

Abstract:

The Guide to the software engineering body of knowledge (SWEBOK - ISO TR 19759) provides a consensually validated characterization of the bounds of the software engineering discipline as well as a topical access to the Body of Knowledge supporting that discipline. This Body of Knowledge is currently organized as a taxonomy subdivided into ten Knowledge Areas designed to discriminate among the various important concepts only at the top level. Of course, the software engineering knowledge is much richer that this high level taxonomy and currently resides in the textual descriptions of each knowledge areas. Such textual descriptions widely vary in style and content. The ontology approach is therefore used to analyze the richness of this body of knowledge and to improve its structuring. This paper presents the protoontology developed in the first phase of the construction of a domain ontology for this new engineering discipline. Overall, some six thousands (6000) software engineering concepts and about 400 relationships between concepts have been identified. Some of the major results obtained to this point are detailed and discussed.

Año de publicación:

2005

Keywords:

• Software engineering body of knowledge
• Ontology development
• Swebok ontology
• Swebok
• Ontology construction
• Software engineering ontology
• domain ontology
• ontology

Fuente:

scopus